Greece has banned the transfer of money from, and to Macedonia. Blocked are all funds from Western Union and the Greek National Bank.

Macedonian citizens who at the moment are in Greece can't receive money from Macedonia, nor send money to Macedonia.

"This morning I wanted to transfer some funds to Skopje via Western
Union. Actually, their Western Union is the same as Macedonian Postal
Services, except here they are Greek Postal services, they are
official." says Ivan Ivanov, Macedonian citizen in Greece.

"I was told that since yesterday, all bank transactions with
Macedonia are forbidden. Of course, they didn't say Macedonia. After
that I went to Nacional Trapeza, then in Greek National Bank, I got the
same response." concluded Ivanov.

Western Union in Skopje
acknowledged the problem, and the complaints they received in the past
two days. It alarmed their headquarters in
Ireland.

Western Union's Director Marku says, Greece will face a
substantial financial punishment for breaking the rules under which
Western Union operates.

According to Marku, the problems were the
documents that people fill out where it must be noted the name of the
country where funds are sent to or received from.

Western Union clients worldwide use Macedonia on the forms. This bothered Greece so the financial transactions were cut.